News Archive
Animal Teach Workshops
The beginning of May saw the start of our new after school club, ‘Animal Teach’, with Naomi. We have had an overwhelming response to the club and the children have said how excited they are to return for a second week. The children have met,...
16 May 2022
Year 3 Catalyst Museum
Year 3 enjoyed their visit to The Catalyst Museum on 20th April. The children explored the world of fossils and volcanoes in the workshops and investigated the museum completing all the exciting activities....
16 May 2022
Year 8 Liverpool trip
On Tuesday 10th May, Year 8 students went on a cross-curricular trip to Liverpool to deepen their knowledge in History, Music, Geography and Art by visiting the Museum of Liverpool, TATE Liverpool and Liverpool Docks....
16 May 2022
Year 9 Workshop: Hate Crime'
On Monday 8th November, a group of Y9 students took part in a really informative and creative workshop on Hate Crime with Collaborative Digital. Students created podcasts and videos that can be used to educate other students about the topic...
8 Nov 2021
Class of The Week
Another week of fantastic attitude to learning and hard work in secondary. Well done to our 'Class of the Week' winners, including 7L/E/C7 who are the first class to receive 3 nominations in one week. Keep up the excellent work....
5 Oct 2021
Primary Prefects
Congratulations to our Primary Prefects who have been elected to help support their peers and the school. We know that you will work hard and carry out your role with enthusiasm and dedication....
5 Oct 2021
PRIDE Week - 28th June 2021
Thank you to the students who have worked hard to create displays, posters and bunting for our PRIDE Week. The school looks fantastic. This week we will be exploring ideas of equality, diversity and acceptance....
29 Jun 2021
Primary Sports Day July 2021
Our Primary Sports Day will be taking place on Friday 2nd & 9th July. Unfortunately, parents/carers are unable to attend due to safety measures. Please ensure your child attends in their PE kit, with a water bottle and a sun hat and sun cream if the...
29 Jun 2021
Year 10 'Sampling on Tour'
Thank you to the students who have worked hard to create displays, posters and bunting for our PRIDE Week. The school looks fantastic. This week we will be exploring ideas of equality, diversity and acceptance....
29 Jun 2021
Year 10 Progress Update Evening
Year 10 Parents/Carers, our Progress and Mock Exam Update Day will take place on Thursday 24th June from 4:00pm - 7:00pm. Appointments with your child's teachers can be booked via SchoolCloud. Please read this letter for more information:...
14 Jun 2021
Year 7 Progress Update Evening
A reminder to Year 7 parents/carers that our Progress Evening will take place on Thursday 17th June 2021. Please book your appointments with teachers on School Cloud by visiting: grangeacademy.schoolcloud.co.uk . For more information, please read...
14 Jun 2021
Year 10 Prefect Applications
Year 10 students, our Prefect application process is now open. For more information about how to apply, please read the following letter: https://bit.ly/3pSw4Hu Our current Year 11 Head Prefects have put together this video about the role of a...
14 Jun 2021
Legendary Lockdown Learning
Another week of fantastic learning from students in school and at home! We are really impressed with how hard students are working and the excellent work they are sharing with us. Keep it up!...
2 Feb 2021
Times Table Rockstars National Challenge
During week commencing 9th November, there is a national Times Table Rock Stars Challenge taking place for Primary students. You will find more about this from your class teacher , but we want as many students as possible to get involved!...
12 Nov 2020
Suprise Me' homework featured on The Great British Bake Off!
A big well done to Jasmine in Year 7 for your fantastic MFL ‘Surprise Me’ Homework. Jasmine’s cake appeared on The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice and we are so proud of your fantastic home learning and baking abilities!...
8 Jan 2020
St Andrew's Day
On Friday 29th November, we celebrated St Andrew’s Day. Throughout the week, we collected money for St Andrew’s House chosen charity of Halton Haven Hospice. Thank you to all students, parents and carers who kindly donated. Throughout the week,...
29 Nov 2019
PE Success
Year 5/6 Indoor Athletics Team after finishing an amazing 3rd place in the Halton Schools Indoor Athletics Competition Year 5/6 Football Squad after their first football season in their new kit from the Premier League Year 5/6 High...
11 Dec 2019
Year 5 Art Project
Class 5OI have loved their recent Art projects. They have learnt how to weave like the Vikings and how to draw using 2 point perspective. We have been very impressed with their resilience when learning these new skills, with excellent results. Well...
20 Nov 2019
Armistice Day
On Monday morning, we paid our respects with a two minute silence as part of Armistice Day. Head Girl and Head Boy, Niamh and Robert addressed the whole school and this was followed by the last post played by Georgi and then two minutes of silence....
11 Nov 2019
World Mental Health Day
On Thursday 10th October students and staff at The Grange Academy undertook a range of activities to promote positive mental health. Young people’s mental health and wellbeing has never been so important and current statistics indicate that; 1 in...
11 Oct 2019
Poetry Day
Special Poetry Day Visit from Paul Delaney To celebrate National Poetry Day, we invited the well-known local poet, Paul Delaney to The Grange Academy. We had a fantastic day creating poetry during the masterclass sessions in the library and we...
8 Oct 2019
Creative Writers Go Through To Next Round Of National Story Competition
Massive congratulations to our talented group of creative writers who recently entered the BBC Radio 2 500 words competition. In March, each of our writers submitted their own creative story to the national competition. All the students who entered...
30 Aug 2019
All Star Cricket
A fantastic morning was had by all the Halton Primary Schools that came to take part in the All Stars Cricket Festival held here at the Grange. Organised by Cheshire Cricket Board and assisted by our Year 9 Sports Leaders. Special guest Twinkle the...
30 Aug 2019
Prize Winning Poem
Sian from 5OI has made us very proud. She entered her Mother's Day poem into a competition and received a 'Talent for Writing' certificate. Well done Sian! My Mum Means The World To Me My mum is my very best chum She makes me food that is very...
30 Aug 2019
Charity Fundraising
This year, as a school we have done extremely well to raise a large amount of money for various charities. In November 2018 we raised £175.38 for Children In Need. Students wore something spotty and gave donations towards this worthy cause. In...
14 Jan 2019
‘In the name of ART’
Our fantastic art exhibition ‘In the name of ART’ is now on display at the Brindley Theatre. This is a collaboration with Wade Deacon, showcasing work that has been produced in the style of some famous artists. The display is up over the festive...
12 Dec 2018
Enrichment Fair
Thank you to all of the parents and learners who joined us for our Enrichment Fair on Thursday 13th September. We had a great turn out and Secondary learners were keen to sign up for enrichment activities they would like to be involved in throughout...
16 Oct 2018
Year 6 Viking Day
Year 6 celebrated their Viking Day by acting in role, writing postcards about their raid, writing secret messages in runes, creating amulets with Viking pattern designs and investigating Viking poo to see what they ate. It was interesting and so...
28 Nov 2018
A visit from Status Quo
Students in Year 5 to Year 10 had an excellent time engaging in a workshop with Jeff Rich, the drummer from Status Quo. Students thoroughly enjoyed the workshop and their participation and behaviour was fantastic. When a student asked Jeff ‘how long...
28 Nov 2018
Year 1 Chester Zoo
Year 1 students were learning all about animals and their habitats last half term. They had an amazing time at Chester Zoo looking at all of the different animals they have been learning about. Well done to all our students for behaving so well...
21 Nov 2018
Year 8 and Year 9 Paris Trip October 2018
On the last Friday of half term, a coachful of excited students left school at 5am, direction Paris. After a relatively relaxing journey we made it to our hotel in the evening. On our first evening the students enjoyed their first French meal of...
20 Nov 2018
Year 3 Greek Day
Miss Gittins and Miss Hemsley would like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you for all who came along to share our Year 3 Greek Day with us. The children thoroughly enjoyed immersing themselves in our topic this term and they absolutely...
20 Nov 2018
